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    "id": 421208,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/421208/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me say one word as I wind up and this is not intended for politics, I want to praise the President and the Deputy President for what they did by giving a signal that they are surrendering 20 per cent of their salary. But I want to remind them that they cannot cut their salary. That is unconstitutional. What they can do is to write to their Accounting Officer to surrender the salary they do not want back to the State. But you cannot say that you are cutting your salary. The law does not allow you to increase; the same law does not allow you to reduce. So, the salary to the Office of the President is the salary to that Office. You cannot reduce it. You can only surrender your salary to someone. If you want to surrender it to a charitable organization, you do so. If you want to surrender it to the people of Kenya, we will gladly take it, but it is wrong to assume that the President has reduced his salary. He has no power to do so. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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